Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 473

Chapter 473 Resistance

If the icy autumn wind hadn't been blowing on the wet face of the Japanese Army Major General, reminding him of the coldness of the world, Ushijima Mitsuru might have thought he was still in a nightmare.

It's not a nightmare, why would Mao become like this?

Three hours ago, he was still thinking high-spiritedly about how to destroy the Chinese army that had reached its end, and how to make the skull of the Chinese commander he hated so much into a souvenir to hang in his military tent. , still thinking about being promoted to lieutenant general and commander of the division, and marching southward to establish immortal achievements.

But now only three hours have passed, and those ambitions have drifted away in the wind. How come the thousands of troops under his command have almost disappeared?

The gap between fantasy and reality is so huge that this Japanese Army major general, who has always thought highly of himself, stood stunned in the autumn wind for more than ten minutes.

　　Until the artillery fire that ravaged the wilderness continued to spread, Ushijima Mitsuru turned his horse's head melancholy and fled further into the wilderness with his **** squadron.

Long gathering sirens rang out in the wilderness, but the number of Japanese troops who could run over to assemble with the sad Japanese Army Major General was far fewer than he imagined.

It's not that they were all killed by these consecutive rounds of artillery fire, but that most of the Japanese troops were in a panic and tried to avoid the shells that might fall on their heads first.

In addition to the direction of the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade, there were small groups of the 36th Infantry Brigade in the other three directions. The one that ran the farthest even reached the defense area of the 18th Division.

If the sentry of the 18th Division had not repeatedly confirmed in Japanese and even asked the opponent's name several times, an infantry team responsible for stationing in the area would definitely have summoned its main force to kill the group of more than a hundred people. The people's "khaki" were destroyed as Chinese infiltration troops.

Otherwise, who can believe this group of guys who claim to be the 36th Infantry Brigade of the 6th Division? When did the imperial infantry become so embarrassed?

But this is the fact. Faced with the same shit-yellow color under the searchlight, the infantrymen of the "Strongest Division on the Surface" who took the initiative to throw down their guns have no arrogance like the strongest division. Their arrogance was annihilated by the bullets and artillery fire of the Chinese soldiers on that small position. At this moment, they just wanted to live, even under the protection of the newly built division, which they usually didn't like very much.

The Japanese artillerymen, including Mingichi Omura, have probably never felt so comfortable. Tang Dao ordered 900 rounds of artillery shells to be brought to them.

That means that a gun needs to fire 150 rounds, a battle-level amount of ammunition.

For a full three hours, the sound of artillery fire from the position of the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade never stopped.

Because the coordinates of the artillery attack that reached Tang Dao's headquarters were not only in front of the blocking positions of the two guard battalions, but also the infantry regiment blocking the advance regiment's defense route back to Jiashan.

More than 2,500 infantrymen built simple field positions along seven or eight kilometers of wilderness, waiting for the advance regiment to rush in. Instead, they were attacked by at least 3,000 Chinese infantry from two infantry regiments in the direction of the Jiashan defense line.

Originally, based on the strength of the infantry regiment, not to mention the two Chinese infantry regiments, even an infantry brigade, they were confident to kill it. Otherwise, Ushijima Sadao would not easily place an infantry regiment in his own formation. six kilometers away.

However, the Chinese launched the attack before nightfall. After the Japanese troops counterattacked and wanted to attack them, the Chinese who launched the attack actually retracted and established a field position 800 meters away. In turn, the Japanese troops who attacked them were A bit numb.

There is not enough artillery support. If they want to break the Chinese army's position, they must have the courage to pay a sufficient price, not to mention it is already night, and the losses will be even greater.

When the bad news came from the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade, the Japanese army finally knew the purpose of this group of Chinese, which was just to drag them.

Just knowing this, the infantry regiment could only stare blankly.

The three to four thousand Chinese people in front of you can be said to be too few or too many. As long as they dare to send out troops to support you, they will dare to come and kill you. If they draw less, it will be useless. If they draw too much, you will suffer. In the end, you can only take care of yourself first. Speaking for myself, the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade will be handed over to the 36th Infantry Brigade for rescue.

Wait until daytime, with the help of artillery and bombers, it should not be difficult to defeat the Chinese army in front of you.

But the result was that the Japanese army did not wait for its own artillery, and was hit by a heavy artillery piece late at night.

At that moment, the Japanese infantry regiment on the position was absolutely confused. When did the Chinese have such heavy artillery? Isn't it already agreed upon that it's the empire's patent?

Are the Chinese about to launch an attack?

The captain of the Japanese infantry regiment, who had never been beaten up by the Chinese army, obviously reacted much slower than Setouchi, and even issued a military order that all military units were not allowed to leave their positions.

Little did he know that opposite him, the Chinese troops of two infantry regiments had quietly withdrawn from their positions 20 minutes before the artillery fire came, and then ran away as fast as possible.

Can you do it without running?

Tang Dao said in the message sent to the headquarters: "Because the distance of the artillery strike exceeds ten kilometers, and due to calculation errors in data such as direction, our army cannot guarantee the impact point of the artillery shells. The only thing that can guarantee is the intensity of the artillery fire. Please ask the area Our troops will evacuate as quickly as possible!”

One side runs away in advance, while the other side insists on standing firm. The outcome of both sides can be imagined.

According to the battle report of the 18th Division after the war, the order of the captain of the infantry regiment caused his infantry to withstand Chinese artillery fire on the position for about an hour.

The most terrible thing is that in the later stage, Tang Daobu, who was fighting crazy, was no longer satisfied with the 6 heavy cannons controlled by the Japanese artillery troops. Cheng Tieshou led dozens of people to attack Komura Mingyi and others who completely tore off their underwear. Under the careful "teaching" of the Japanese army, another six 150-meter heavy guns were controlled.

It is the first time for Chinese artillerymen to see heavy artillery. It is no problem for the Chinese artillerymen to lay the cannon flat and hit a few hundred meters. But if they want to hit a target ten kilometers away, they will naturally have no accuracy at the beginning. They basically just blow up soil for fun, and there are even a few The launch was several kilometers away and almost sent away a wave of Chinese infantry platoons that were encircling the flanks.

However, the Japanese 'instructors' were very good, and the Chinese students worked very hard. It took them twenty minutes to finally adjust the aim, and gradually dropped the artillery shells onto the Japanese positions.

Twelve heavy artillery pieces plowed the ground back and forth on the Japanese infantry regiment's position without hesitation of shells.

During the more than an hour of shelling, although the unit was not said to have been directly defeated, the battle damage was probably unprecedented since the establishment of the infantry regiment, and was even greater than the losses of many front-line troops who fought fiercely on the Jiashan defense line for a week. Even bigger.

Using simple field positions and 150 heavy artillery to resist, Ushijima Sadao, who received the news, was almost sent away by his idiot.

But this was not the final tragedy. When the artillery fire stopped, the Japanese front-line infantrymen who had been blown away by the explosion had not yet recovered. They were horrified to find that the movement on the opposite Chinese position seemed to be getting louder again. They were about to attack. Rhythm.

The two sides fired illumination bombs at each other, illuminating the battlefield that was already covered with bomb craters. The dark gray and dark blue of the Chinese army reappeared in the field of vision of the Japanese commander's telescope.

The Japanese soldiers, who cheered up, lay down in the trenches, preparing to use rifles and machine guns to severely teach the Chinese who dared to come.

Is it great to have heavy artillery? I have the spirit of a samurai who regards death as his own.

However, having heavy artillery is really awesome.

Five minutes later, the Japanese army, which had not waited for the Chinese infantry to attack, waited for a new round of artillery fire.

What returned was just a Chinese infantry company with artillery observers. They only came to observe the battlefield. They did not expect that the Japanese were so awesome and were still alive and well after being bombarded for so long.

　　If one cannon cannot solve the problem, then two or three cannons will be used.

Anyway, Tang Dao still had a large inventory of artillery shells captured from the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade, and the night was still long enough.

Just think of it as training for artillerymen.

It is rare to have such a good 'instructor', so many artillery shells, and such a resistant target.

The tragic Japanese troops on this position were bombed for another half an hour.

Then, it collapsed!

(End of this chapter)

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